Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Democracy is not just about elections, but also about the protection of human rights, the rule of law, and the separation of powers"

Abdullah Gul, President

"I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations"

Shakira, Musician

"The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Judaism is a conspiracy against all races"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our nation"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you"

Harvey Milk, Politician

"Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment"

E. L. Doctorow, Author

"Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop, it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace, it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of"

George C. Wallace, Politician

"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"We care little about what the average citizen thinks"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"I'll tell you what colonial experience is"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do"

Judith Light, Actress

"There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights"

Judith Light, Actress

"It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world, but people are starving. It's all political"

Judith Light, Actress

"Yes, the Jews do many foul things, and they distort our foreign policy, but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Skinheads are becoming part of our overall movement"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Moslems are no less an enemy than the Jews"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

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